A Quote by Oscar Wilde

When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde
Irish - Poet
October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900

If it amuses you to hit people, you do boxing - you do taekwondo - whatever you want. But you don't play football.

Patrice Evra

Racing amuses me.

Enzo Ferrari

It amuses me when I'm described as 'chic.'

Vanessa Paradis

unrequitted love amuses me

Cassandra Clare

Change amuses the mind, but rarely profits.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I like reflecting the culture I understand best, spotting the idiosyncrasies of British people and revealing them to an audience in a way that amuses is what I find fun.

Jim Broadbent

Maybe something that amuses the Americans is that they are so worried about age, and I'm not at all.

Agnes Varda

What still amuses me a bit is that in F1 people see the race basically on TV screens. But I am sure new tracks will be built.

Martin Sorrell

Bollywood marketing is larger-than-life. Honestly, it amuses me.

Parvathy

To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.

Ted Danson

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

Plato

I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.

Elizabeth Gilbert

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

Oscar Wilde

The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then.